用扩散模型统一处理实时预测与回溯分析,提升天气预报精度。
ForcingDAS: Unified and Robust Data Assimilation via Diffusion Forcing

- 通过扩散强迫学习全局轨迹先验,避免逐帧传递误差
- 单个模型在实时预测、延迟平滑和批量重分析中表现均优于专用模型
- 特别适合真实气象数据这种高维不完整观测场景
数据同化(DA)从噪声且不完整的观测中估计动态系统的状态,广泛应用于科学模拟及气象气候领域。传统滤波方法依赖帧间转移模型,但在非马尔可夫观测(如真实气象数据为高维潜在状态的部分切片)下容易累积长时程误差。同时,现有学习型方法通常局限于单一模式:仅用于滤波(实时预测)或平滑(回溯分析),导致共享先验被割裂。为此,我们提出ForcingDAS,一种统一且鲁棒的DA框架。基于为每帧分配独立噪声水平的扩散强迫,ForcingDAS学习联合轨迹先验而非帧间转移,从而捕捉长时序依赖并减少误差累积。此外,同一训练模型可在推理时通过调度灵活覆盖从滤波到平滑的全谱应用,包括实时预测、固定滞后平滑与批量重分析,无需重新训练。我们在2D纳维-斯托克斯涡度、降水实时预测及全球大气状态估计任务上评估了该方法。在所有设置中,单一模型均达到或超越针对特定模式优化的现有学习与经典基线,尤其在真实气象基准测试中取得最大提升。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Data assimilation (DA) estimates the state of an evolving dynamical system from noisy, partial observations, and is widely used in scientific simulation as well as weather and climate science. In practice, filtering methods rely on frame-to-frame transition models. However, these models are fragile when observations are non-Markovian (when they form only a partial slice of a higher-dimensional latent state as in real-world weather data): they tend to accumulate errors over long horizons. At the same time, learned DA methods typically commit to a single regime, either filtering (nowcasting, real-time forecasting) or smoothing (retrospective reanalysis), which splits what should be a shared prior across application-specific pipelines. To address both issues, we introduce ForcingDAS, a unified and robust DA framework. Built on Diffusion Forcing with an independent noise level assigned to each frame, ForcingDAS learns a joint-trajectory prior instead of frame-to-frame transitions. This allows it to capture long-horizon temporal dependencies and reduce error accumulation. In addition, the same trained model spans the full filtering to smoothing spectrum at inference time. Specifically, nowcasting, fixed-lag smoothing, and batch reanalysis are selected through the inference schedule alone, without retraining. We evaluate ForcingDAS on 2D Navier-Stokes vorticity, precipitation nowcasting, and global atmospheric state estimation. Across all settings, a single model is competitive with or outperforms both learned and classical baselines that are specialized for individual regimes, with the largest gains observed on real-world weather benchmarks.
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